Syntone
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices. historical
"[…] syntones with sharp formants, very much reminding early computer music experiments with synthesized voices by Newman Guttman at Bell Laboratories in 1957 by means of Music4 software."
- 2 A person whose emotional state is in harmony with their environment.
- 3 Synonym of syntonic comma.
Example
More examples"[…] syntones with sharp formants, very much reminding early computer music experiments with synthesized voices by Newman Guttman at Bell Laboratories in 1957 by means of Music4 software."
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